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"Akutagawa Ryunosuke Story Selection vol.10
Titles Included: Giwaku, Issekiwa, Kare

Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) is one of the most famous and excellent author in Japanese literature of all times. Ryunosuke was active in early 20th century during Taisho era. He is regarded as the ""Father of the Japanese short story"", and is well noted for his distinguished style of writing and finely detailed stories enriched with parables and anecdotes, which were often based on Japanese classic literature, in pursuit of expressing and questioning the deep nature inside human being."
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Titles Included: Aru Renai Shousetsu, Shougun

Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) is one of the most famous and excellent author in Japanese literature of all times. Ryunosuke was active in early 20th century during Taisho era. He is regarded as the ""Father of the Japanese short story"", and is well noted for his distinguished style of writing and finely detailed stories enriched with parables and anecdotes, which were often based on Japanese classic literature, in pursuit of expressing and questioning the deep nature inside human being."
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Titles Included: Anokoro No Jibun No Koto, Momotarou

Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) is one of the most famous and excellent author in Japanese literature of all times. Ryunosuke was active in early 20th century during Taisho era. He is regarded as the ""Father of the Japanese short story"", and is well noted for his distinguished style of writing and finely detailed stories enriched with parables and anecdotes, which were often based on Japanese classic literature, in pursuit of expressing and questioning the deep nature inside human being."
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Titles Included:Anchuumondou, Haru, Kiguu

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: In a Grove, the Nose, Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale, Autumn Mountain, Hell Screen, Rashōmon, the Spider's Thread. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "In a Grove" Yabu no Naka) is a short story by Rynosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinch. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for his award-winning movie Rashmon. "In a Grove" is a brilliant blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese literature and as such is perhaps the iconic work of Akutagawa's career. It presents seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth. The story is often praised as being among the greatest in Japanese literature. The story opens with the account of a woodcutter who has found a man's body in the woods. The woodcutter reports that man died of a single sword slash to the chest, and that the trampled leaves around the body showed there had been a violent struggle, but otherwise lacked any significant evidence as to what actually happened. There were no weapons nearby, and no horsesonly a single piece of rope, a comb and a lot of blood. The next account is delivered by a traveling Buddhist priest. He says that he met the man, who was accompanied by a woman on horseback, on the road, around noon the day before the murder. The man was carrying a sword, a bow and a black quiver. All of these, along with the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=593329 ... Read more

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"In a Grove" (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for his award-winning movie Rashōmon.

"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth.

The story is often praised as being among the greatest in Japanese literature.

"Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.

The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), which was based on Akutagawa's 1922 short story, "In a Grove". However, the framing sequence of the film reflects certain elements of the story, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion of the moral ambiguity of thieving to survive.

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In the spare, textured prose of these six short stories, [Akutagawa] brings us clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior. -- New York Times ... Read more